Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] him for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I went to visit him at the Benedictine monastery at Nashdom and asked him for any insights which he could give me from his experience in Accra .
2 The Judge held that George was responsible for instigating the crime and jailed him for four and a half years .
3 Judge Geoffrey Kilfoil ordered his arrest and jailed him for 14 days for contempt of court .
4 Chelmsford magistrates fined him £2,600 and banned him for 18 months .
5 Three hundred Catholic miners marched in from Cleator Moor , four miles away , intercepted him outside the meeting-hall , beat him as hard as they could , and left him for dead .
6 He had confidence in Timman 's ability to hold this theoretically drawn endgame , but tested him for four hours on Monday before agreeing to share the point .
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